Cheers rose from onlookers as the mass of police cars rushed by, red lights spinning, followed by streams of bicyclists – some clad in serious cycling gear, some with flags affixed to their helmets, some standing upright, making exaggerated strides on...
The Yale School of Architecture has no official alumni network. But an initiative called the Architect is IN, which provides pro bono design services to nonprofits in need as part of Yale Day of Service, has provided a way for architecture alumni to...
For Bill D’Antonio ’48 B.A., Yale was a familiar presence long before he began his studies here. He’d attended Hillhouse High School in New Haven, where he was a member of the Italian fraternity, and his father was Yale’s postmaster. When he was accepted...
Alumni were invited on each reunion weekend to a roundtable discussion on the university’s efforts to further the principles of diversity, equity and inclusion (DEI) among members of the student body, faculty and administration.
Kathryn Lofton, chair of...
Of the 20 finalists named for this year’s Pritzker Emerging Environmental Genius Award, three — all women — are from Yale.
The startups and social ventures they lead address major environmental problems head-on. The women have developed a sustainable...
Creative partners Jennifer Newsom ’01 BA, ’05 M.Arch. and Tom Carruthers ’05 M.Arch. of the Minneapolis-based firm Dream the Combine won this year’s PS1 Young Architects Program Competition at MoMA PS1 in Queens. The outdoor environment they conceived and...
Caroline Tanbee Smith ’14 B.S. says she fell in love with New Haven while she was a sophomore at Yale. “I love building stuff,” she says, sitting in a meeting room at the Grove, an eclectic coworking space on Chapel Street that has the look of a converted...
Susan Byseiwicz ’83 B.A. first met former Connecticut Governor Ella Grasso at an American Legion event at her high school. That chance encounter with the first woman elected governor in the United States proved to be a definitive moment. Between her...
Ben Reiter ’02 B.A. can trace the beginning of his sports-writing career to a class in advanced nonfiction writing he took with Yale professor Fred Strebeigh. For one assignment, he wrote a story focused on the demise of the Milford Jai-Alai fronton — a...
Patricia Nez Henderson ’94 M.P.H., ’00 M.D. discussed her work promoting the wellness of the Navajo community in a conversation with President Peter Salovey on Sept. 17 before a packed audience at the Yale Center for British Art.
Henderson attended Yale...